A person can be killed instantly through many different means.

As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly.

If you instantly destroy a person’s entire brain then they died without pain.

Yet the most effective ways of instantly destroying someone’s entire brain are considered inhumane.

If instantly killing someone by smashing their head with a massive rock, or shooting them in the brain stem is inhumane, then there is no humane way to kill someone at all.

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    11 months ago

    Death penalty isn’t the only way to kill people…

    Murder, War, “Police” Violence, “Military interventions (totally 3 days only)”…

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      11 months ago

      And no one would qualify those as “humane” either. So the argument still stands.

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          11 months ago

          There is a difference, but if you start saying that shooting an invader is humane, you have a serious problem.

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              11 months ago

              That sounds like your average american too.

              Nonetheless, if you start thinking that killing is humane because “they deserve it”, I will repeat myself, you have a serious problem.

              Because I’m pretty sure that this horrible rapist invader is also convinced that you deserve it, yet I don’t believe you would find their behaviour humane for that reason.

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                if you start thinking that killing is humane because “they deserve it”, I will repeat myself, you have a serious problem.

                Fair enough. While I don’t subscribe to pacifism, I do prefer that self-defense be regarded as an unfortunate necessity. Celebrating violence isn’t going to help us.

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                  11 months ago

                  It can be a necessity and still be inhumane.

                  Having to do something does not make it good, and it’s fine as long as people see it.

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                  11 months ago

                  Because I said that killing is inhumane?

                  Oh I forgot, Russia doesn’t kill anyone, silly me /s